news bulletin – answers

Muscovites mourn Solzhenitsyn

questions

1. Who broadcasts the news of Solzhenitsyn’s death? Russian television
2. What did Sozhenitsyn write about? Soviet era labour camps
3. Whose eyes were opened to Stalin’s brutality? the world’s
4. Why did people read his books secretly? because they were banned
5. Give one word spoken by each of the first two people interviewed that describes the effect the books had on them. freedom and revelation
6. For how long was his role clear? 15 years
7. What is happening to Russia according to the third interviewee? it is changing
8. What is Solzhenitsyn’s son’s name? Stephan
9. What did he ‘have’ according to his son? multiple illnesses
10. Why was his father happy? because he was able to spend his last years in Russia